This Monday, the platform released a photo of this mega production featuring Charlie Hunnam.
More than four years after its first announcement, Apple TV + unveiled the first image of Shantaramthe ambitious new drama series starring Charlie Hunnam (Sons of anarchy, King Arthur), based on the Australian’s acclaimed novel Gregorio David Roberts.
The platform’s long-awaited original series “is a hopeful love story coupled with a thrilling epic adventure that follows a man’s journey towards redemption through a country that changes his life ”, reads the official summary of the company founded by Steve Jobs.
Shantaram will preview the first three episodes of its first season – over a total of 12 chapters – Friday 14 Octoberfollowed by a new weekly episode every Friday through December 16 on Apple TV +.
Hunnam in the movie “Triple Frontier”, released in 2019.
The plot is a multicultural cast
Like the novel published in 2003, the story centers on a runaway drug addict, a bank robber named Lindsay Ford (Hunnam), who tries to get lost in the vibrant and chaotic 1980s Bombay, where ends up reinventing himself as a doctor.
Lindsay is alone in an unknown city, struggling to avoid the troubles he’s running away from in this strange new city of India. After falling in love with an enigmatic and intriguing woman named Karla (Antonia Desplat), Lin has to choose between freedom or love and the complications that come with it.
Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell star in “Jungleland”, also released in 2019.
In addition to the British Hunnam in the lead role, the series has a multicultural cast that includes Shubham Saraf, Elektra Kilbey, Fayssal Bazzi, Luke Pasqualino, Alyy Khan, Sujaya Dasgupta, Vincent Perez, David Field, Alexander Siddig, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Elham Ehsas, Rachel Kamath, Matthew Joseph and Shiv Palekar.
delayed production
The series had a long and complicated gestation, which forced the estimated release date to expire.. Filming began in Australia in early 2020 under the direction of Justin Kurzel, but began to be delayed due to script complications and then a takeover. showrunner.
Production moved to India, where the book takes place, in the middle of the year. Had it continued in Australia, it would have been impacted by the pandemic restrictions that hit the country of Oceania in early and mid-2020.
Although it was able to continue in India for a while, it eventually had to be stopped as Covid-19 began to ravage that country as well. The truth is, it just finished its production at the end of last year.
Shantaram – which in the Indian language Marathi means Peaceful man-, is written and produced by Steve Lightfoot, screenwriter of Hannibal Y The Punisheramong others -, which also works as showrunner. Bharat Nalluri directs and is executive producer.
Andrea Barron, Nicole Clemens, Steve Golin, Justin Kurzel and Eric Warren Singer, who co-created the series with Lightfoot, are also executive producers. The series is produced for Apple TV + by Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content’s AC Studios.
Source: Clarin
